Original Celtics

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history of

basketball

Before World War II the most widely heralded professional team was the Original Celtics, which started out in 1915 as a group of youngsters from New York City, kept adding better players in the early 1920s, and became so invincible that the team disbanded in 1928, only to regroup in the early 1930s as the New York Celtics. They finally retired in 1936. The Celtics played every night of the...

New York Rens

...because those “race games” brought consistently large crowds to the casino. In the process, the Rens developed an ongoing rivalry with the best team in professional basketball, the Original Celtics. At first it was not much of a rivalry, because the Celtics, led by Joe Lapchick and Nat Holman, were clearly the better team. However, as the match-ups grew in significance and as...

role of Lapchick

...left high school in Yonkers in 1914 and played semiprofessional and professional basketball so successfully that at one point he was earning $75 a game and was playing in four leagues at once. The Celtics of New York, with whom he played (1922–27), were so good that they were disbanded in 1928 as a threat to the American Basketball League (ABL). He played with the Cleveland Rosenblooms,...

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